Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor

Updated July 20, 2009 12:01 a.m. ET

Measure Performance

To the Editor: The comparative effectiveness studies that Bill Alpert discusses in the July 6 Tech Trader column "Marshalling Evidence for What Makes Sense in Health Care" are a crucial first step toward improving our nation's health and implementing a system that our society can actually afford.

Health-care providers of all stripes are naturally content to enrich themselves by providing goods and services in our free-wheeling system. Most have no interest in proving that their products or services...